Chance Me For HYPS, Wharton, MIT, and UChicago!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>School:
"Super" (ranked top ten by Newsweek) Magnet High School
Maggie L. Walker Governor's School</p>

<p>GPA:
~3.6 (4.0 scale with A, A+ being 4.0)
~4.2 (weighted)</p>

<p>We don't rank, but I'd expect I'm in the top 10%, or at least top 20%.</p>

<p>Tests:
SAT I- 2330 SuperScored (M-800, CR-780, W-750) = 1580/1600 (Non-SuperScore)
SAT II- Math II (800), US History (750)
AP- US History (5) in sophomore year, US Government (5), Economics Micro (4), Economics Macro (4), Calculus BC (4), Chemistry (4), European History (3)
PSAT- 229</p>

<p>Classes:
Note- All other classes are at least Honors level.</p>

<p>Sophomore Year-
AP US History</p>

<p>Junior Year-
AP US Government
AP European History
AP Micro Economics
AP Macro Economics
AP Chemistry
AP Calculus BC
VCU Discrete Math (dual enrollment in a nearby full-sized university)</p>

<p>Senior Year-
AP Comparative Government
AP Psychology
AP Human Geography
AP Environmental Science
AP English Literature
VCU Math Modeling
We The People
Mentorship at the local Federal Reserve</p>

<p>Extracurriculars/Awards:
Most Relevant-
Communications Officer and Treasurer for Investment Club
Competitive Paid Internship in Human Resources at Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Mentorship in Research at Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond with a internationally renowned Senior Economist
Competing in the local high school Fed Challenge</p>

<p>Less Relevant-
-Participating and maybe placing in national We the People competition
-National Honor Society
-National French Honor Society
-National History Honor Society
-Varsity Golf Team Captain
-Historian and Secretary for Club Asia
-Secretary for Model Congress/Government
-Chair for the GSMC (Governor's School Model Congress)
-200+ Hours of Community Service at state's Science Museum
-Third place in Senior Microbiology at Metro Richmond Science Fair
-Stockholm Water Award in Research
-Invited to play saxophone twice in prestigious nationwide woodwind festival
-Played piano semi-professionally for 7 years and was state-ranked in Virginia</p>

<p>Universities:
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)- Early
MIT- Early
University of Chicago- Early
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford
Northwestern University
Rice University
University of Virginia (In-state)
William & Mary (Backup/In-state)</p>

<p>Thanks everyone! I'll try to chance everyone back!
Leon</p>

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<p>As is the case with all students that come from magnet/highly competitive schools, your chances are almost completely dependent on who else from your school is applying to the same schools that you are.</p>

<p>Your test scores great, but that rank is going to hurt your chances significantly, since you’re applying to HYP and the like. Your ECs don’t seem that impressive either.</p>

<p>Wharton, MIT, and HYPS are all reaches / significant reaches. You’ll have an decent shot at the other schools on your list, though.</p>

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<p>Normally, I would say your chances are quite good. You definitely have solid tests, and decent ECs (with regards to highly competitive schools). But as billabongboy mentions, the competition at your high school will be fierce, since HYPSM can’t exactly take 40 students from a single source. So your competition is much tougher. I would say that UPenn Wharton, MIT, HYPS are all reaches. By the way, since UPenn is ED, you cannot apply EA for MIT or U of Chicago.</p>

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<p>I believe that Penn is one of those schools that allow their ED applicants to apply EA elsewhere.</p>

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<p>I’m reading on their website that if you ED to UPenn, you cannot ED anywhere else. I’m not sure if this covers EA, but under the College Board’s info, an ED applicant cannot apply early anywhere else. That being said, I could be wrong, but I haven’t found a definitive answer.</p>

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<p>Penn takes 2% that are not top 10%. your GPA looks quite low for ivies. Have a look at Niviance if your school has it.</p>

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<p>I believe you have a fairly good chance at wharton…your mentorship is extremely valuable
I personally am applying ed there…and am still in the process of obtaining an internship with merril lynch and the likes. I know wharton likes to see business and finance in your life before college.</p>

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<p>Penn takes 2% that are not top 10%. your GPA looks quite low for ivies. Have a look at Niviance if your school has it.</p>

<p>^
Not true.
Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School is already enough for him/her to be academically qualified.</p>

<p>Have a look at Niviance if your school has it.
^It’s Naviance. </p>

<p>Yeah, check out your school’s naviance scatterplot, and talk with your GC.
If your SAT could be higher (seeing that it is superscored) I think you have already proven the adcoms that you are qualified (in academics, at least).</p>

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<p>Most everyone who applies is academically qualified.</p>

<p>His key competition is his HS classmates, many of whom will apply to the same schools. hYPSW are not likely to go to the second decile to take those they will from this school.</p>

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<p>Question.</p>

<p>We don’t rank, but I’d expect I’m in the top 10%, or at least top 20%.</p>

<p>How can the colleges find about their rank, if no context is given? (i.e. CommonApp, when you can choose to check “No ranking”?)</p>

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<p>Colleges have plenty of info to rank the officially unranked. They have formulas for top privates and magnets culled from info they get from schools, counselors and historical data on applicants. They take educated guesses using grade distribution data for the rst.</p>

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<p>What if your high school is relatively unknown?</p>

<p>Thank you.</p>

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<p>Also can someone clarify whether or not you can ea to other schools if you are planning on ed to penn?</p>

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<p>What is this nonsense??!</p>

<p>Of course, where did you hear that rumor?</p>

<p>A student may apply Early Decision to only one institution.</p>

<p>For those applicants who have already decided that the University of Pennsylvania is their first college choice and who agree to matriculate if accepted, we encourage application under the Early Decision Plan. Children of alumni also receive some preference under this plan in accordance with standard University policy.</p>

<p>Students who desire Early Decision and who submit their applications by the November 1 deadline will receive a mid-December decision of Admit, Deny, or Defer. Those admitted must respond to us by January 7, since there is a commitment involved. Those deferred will be reevaluated in March and will receive a final decision by early April. Denied students will not be reconsidered in the same academic year.</p>

<p>IMPORTANT NOTE: As noted above, a student may apply Early Decision to only one institution. Accordingly, if an applicant for Early Decision to the University of Pennsylvania also applies for Early Decision to another school, the Early Decision application to the University of Pennsylvania will be withdrawn. Further, if any Regular Decision applicant to the University of Pennsylvania is accepted Early Decision under a College Board approved Early Decision plan by any other school, the application to the University of Pennsylvania will be withdrawn.</p>

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<p>^Above poster needs to read more carefully.</p>

<p>OP was asking if you could EA to other schools while still EDing to Penn. Some schools did not allow you to do this (Brown, up until this year) and other schools did (Cornell). </p>

<p>I’m almost positive that Penn’s policy is that you can still EA to other schools if you choose to ED to Penn.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/form...ement_2011.pdf[/url]”>http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/form...ement_2011.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>On page 7 it says that ‘Early Decision applications supersede any Early Action applications’. Therefore I’m extrapolating that Early Action applications to other schools have to be ALLOWED for the statement to exist in the first place. Moreover, a ED application is usually non-exclusive to EA applications unless stated otherwise.(eg. Brown).</p>

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<p>^The original ED policy is that once you early decision to a certain school, you are barred from early decisioning / early actioning to any others. Certain schools choose to use a variation of this policy.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the help, everyone!</p>

<p>Yes, I do realize that my GPA is a bit on the low side. Nonetheless, I do believe that my (quite) rigorous course load does offset the low GPA a bit.</p>

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<p>I made several revisions (including the correct GPA and class rank) and created a new thread here:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/998380-chance-me-hyps-wharton-mit-uchicago.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/998380-chance-me-hyps-wharton-mit-uchicago.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;